Flow of a Newtonian fluid in a symmetrically heated channel: Effect of viscosity and viscous dissipation (Q610106)

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Flow of a Newtonian fluid in a symmetrically heated channel: Effect of viscosity and viscous dissipation
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    Flow of a Newtonian fluid in a symmetrically heated channel: Effect of viscosity and viscous dissipation (English)
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    1 December 2010
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    Summary: This paper discusses the effect of viscosity and viscous dissipation (due to a high velocity gradient) on the steady flow of a viscous liquid in a symmetrically heated channel. The coupled nonlinear differential equations arising in the planar Poiseuille flow are not amendable to analytical solutions. Therefore, numerical solutions based on finite-difference scheme are presented. The effects of various flow controlling parameters such as temperature difference \(\alpha \), dimensionless pressure gradient, and the dimensionless viscous heating parameter \(\delta \) on the dimensionless velocity and temperature are analyzed. The analysis reveals that when viscous heating parameter \(\delta =0\), we obtained zero solution for the dimensionless temperature.
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